Roof GardensThe city roof offers much in the way of cool evenings to the summer city dweller. Once some sort of parapet is erected, the furnishings and suggestions for porch decorating are appropriate here and may be adapted to the roof. Level the roof by a platform of boards set wide apart, to permit drainage, and with awnings, Venetian blinds, small trees and plants, the background may be made suitable for wicker furniture. Indeed, the roof top and the backyard as well have great possibilities for an outdoor garden life in the city. Screens will play a necessary part on chilly nights. Beside innumerable varieties made of wicker are some with oak frames and wicker panels. Hawaiian screens made by natives, of flat reed in brown with a zigzag pattern in green, are light and prove a good windshield. Both on this roof porch and in the garden can be found place for lead garden statuary, which is being revived nowadays. It gives a quaint air to the porch or the garden, the marquee or the pavilion, a touch reminiscent of 18th Century days when home and the things that went to make a home beautiful were held in high regard. |
